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Methane Powered Charisma - 11 months ago
Okay, this is more for fun than anything else, but here's a small bit from a recent OPRAH website column: How Charismatic Are You? By Howard S. Friedman, PhD O, The Oprah Magazine | From ...- more
What I told Scientific American in response to Shell's "What shall we do?" Survey (and some ridiculously negative commenters) - 1 year ago
This a copy of the reply I posted in "comments" section to ad posing as a survey in Scientific American's website. Here's a link to that answer, from there you can ...- more
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There are currently intensive global research efforts aiming at reducing cost of harvesting microalgae from culture system. However, harvesting microalgae at large scale is the major hurdle for economically feasible ... more
Which Algal strain will be suitable for the research....
Friends... i wanna to do a project on " Genetic manipulation of algae to improve self-aggregation " Am inviting your comments and suggestions ...... Nimal Raveendran
I want to be on the next taste panel !!!! more
Hi Tom,I like the articles you post over here. I would like to hear what you think about my choice of topics too..I have posted my articles at this link: http://www.cleantick.com/users/emily/blogs/rd-magazines-49th-scientist-of-the-year Check ... more
The best sensors to use are solid state sensors, but they should be true solid state sensors, not gel/polymer.They should have a built in reference electrode also solid state.This means ... more
Origin Oil 's technologies are amazing - this in particular is my favorite http://goo.gl/BlR3Y more
Hi Tom,I was just wondering if there were any commercial algal strains being sold in Asia after reading this blog: http://goo.gl/X7wnd .Try checking out this article and can you let ... more
Innovations in Photobioreactor Design - http://www.cleantick.com/users/dunkenneth/pages/innovations-in-photobioreactor-design-materials
We have just sold every litre of oil that we can produce, and are looking for a further 30,000 MT of Rapeseed, Jatropha or Palm OIL per month. more
Got an informative article about Nannochloropsis salina when i was surfing at Cleantick.The article discusses various characteristics of the strain such as lipid productivity,photosynthetic efficiency,growth rate etc... Read at:http://www.cleantick.com/users/amandaleah/projects/analysis-of-marine-algae-strains-for-biofuel-production-nannochloropsis-salina more
CleanTick is an online cleantech community from the promoters of Oilgae. Cleantick has recently launched an online algae fuels community which aims to bring about all the algae fuel professionals, researchers ... more
Hello Patel, I have a solution. Please write to me on biz_3k Thanks more
Take the Algae Fuel Challenge - http://www.oilgae.com/challenge/
This talk by Dan Miller presents compelling evidence for the looming climate apocalypse. We are on a path to global catastrophe. In talking about a crisis of Biblical scale, Miller gives ... more
what may be flocculating agent of microalgae ?( please dont say about chemical,i want to know self flocculating agent, like may be polyscharride, protein, or any others agents) Does anyone here deal in algae self flocculation?
Algae-based biofuel will become commercially viable! But the major obstacle ahead is the high production costs associated. Algae biofuel production costs 10 times that of palm oil, according Rene Wijffels, ... more
World Health Energy Holdings Inc. (WHEN) signed an engagement letter with Millennium Capital Resources (MCR) LLC, a project development and financial advisory firm, to raise up to $100 million in ... more
The First International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts is to be held in St Louis USA, on 17-20 July 2011. The conference will focus on all areas of ... more
The ASTM International Committee on Petroleum Products and Lubricants for approving a new jet fuel specification that will further enable the use of sustainable alternative fuels in aviation. According to the ... more
Boeing 747-8 freighter is going to be the first commercial jetliner to do a transatlantic flight on biofuels. Boeing's Keith Otsuka and Rick Braun, along with Sten Rossby of Cargolux, will ... more
auto flocculating microalga has been evaluating as a promising alternative effective methods for harvesting of microalgae. Further research is required to optimize auto-flocculation or genetically engineered auto-flocculating microalgae to established ... more
if there any fund for students to attened conferences. more
Dear all, i am trying to develope algae harvesting technique via autoflocculation. now i am working chlorella vulgaris esp-6. i need to find the flocculation agents ( gene or others). have anybody work in this area? any suggestion for me?
This is the third post in a series of blogs titled ‘Bottlenecks, Trafficbocks and Deadends’ intended to address Algae Commercialization barriers. Please check out for my previous posts at: http://www.oilgae.com/club/users/Gopinelli/blogs/1207 (Bottlenecks, ... more
Hi Alagarsamy, I have recently started a new blog post on oilgae club. It will run into few weeks where I intend to discuss solutions to major algae commercialization barriers supported by ... more
Are the requirments for sensors and controls for inputs basicaly the same for photo' and hetro' algae reactors? Can you site some companies that have control systems ready to apply to ... more
Hi Gopinelli, Well finally someone who is getting a clue about how to solve the problem of growing algae in a large enough scale to make a profit and be able to ... more
This is part of an upcoming series of blogs titled ‘Bottlenecks, Trafficbocks and Deadends’ intended to address Algae Commercialization barriers. Please check out for my introductory post at: http://www.oilgae.com/club/users/Gopinelli/blogs/1207 For an ... more
Algae industry is believed to be maturing. Numerous breakthrough developments are reported during recent past. And funds are streaming down into the industry. But majority of those innovations and supports ... more
FYI, GM is going to be a huge issue in the US. According to the EPA, the rules and regulations are in place, and they will not hesitate to shut down operations if the rules and regs are not followed.
Potential for algae to transform the world economyRobert Tulip1. The world economy relies on the movement of carbon from the earth’s crust into the atmosphere as its main source of energy. ... more
Oilgae members please check out our new website www.algamerica.com to see our new line of algae photobioreactors. A YouTube video of our lab device is also available. I welcome your questions and input on how we can help improve our devices for the algae industry and those involve in research.
Good. IEA's Biofuels Technology Roadmap released recently predicts a growth of current 2% biofuel market share on transport fuel to 27% by 2050 . This needs 3 billion ton biomass ... more
hello, I think you are in the wrong place. I dont think you will find a guy here who is interested in what you offer. Your hair, eye color or sizes- ... more
An interesting paper published on dewatering of microalgal cultures.You can read it online at the url provided below. A large amount of studies has been completed on the harvesting and recovery ... more
Paulo, if you send me what you have designed so far I will make comments on those ideas. If you want to keep this dialog private use my e-mail address. alanschaefer@att.net If ... more
Bhani, I think you are right about the silica content of rice husks and straw. Besides burning to ash how else might one reduce the straw and husk material to ... more
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that water use is much less if algae are grown in the U.S. regions that have the sunniest and ... more